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diff --git a/timezone/asia b/timezone/asia index 024cb37e57..1a40fb4c5f 100644 --- a/timezone/asia +++ b/timezone/asia @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.82 +# @(#)asia 7.83 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN # CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): +# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): # Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, # observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's # note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. @@ -329,13 +329,13 @@ Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia # Georgia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): +# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! # We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. # -# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): +# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 # Iraq # -# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): +# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): # An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in # the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: # "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S -# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> +# From Ephraim Silverberg # (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, # and 2005-02-17): @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 # `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06): +# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): # Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had # daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued # because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # Kazakhstan # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): -# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan +# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan # stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) # and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time @@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # # [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] -# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar <ganbold@micom.mng.net> (2004-04-17): +# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): # Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. # It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of # September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. @@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # Palestine -# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): +# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): # # From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now # known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. @@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - UZT # Vietnam -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. # We'll stick with the traditional name for now. # From Shanks: |